ATLANTA,None — Officials said a sixth-grader is recovering after falling through a second-floor window in her school’s atrium.
The incident happened at John F. Kennedy Middle School in northwest Atlanta on Thursday.
Atlanta Public Schools spokesperson Ketih Bromery told Channel 2's Amy Napier Viteri that the female student was roughhousing with another student when she fell through a glass window to the 1st-floor gym below.
Eighth-grade student Monia Green heard about it in school.
“There was glass and blood everywhere and the ambulance came to get her and her stuff,” Green said.
Green’s mother, Laura Washington, said she couldn’t believe it when her daughter told her what happened.
“To think you send your child to school and you get a call that the ambulance came to pick them up. It’s horrific,” said Washington.
Bromery said school officials will be checking the rest of the glass to make sure it’s safe and they are also looking into exactly what was going on before the fall.
Washington said the accident made her think the school should replace the windows with something safer.
“How does something like that happen? I would think they would have plexiglass at the schools. I wouldn’t think it would be regular glass. Knowing children do horseplay,” she said.
The student was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston for treatment.